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Where the Boys Are (Jeff & Lloyd #2)
In William J. Mann's witty and provocative follow-up to his acclaimed bestseller The Men From the Boys, Jeff O'Brien-still in search of love and sex-navigates the circuit in the company of friends, tricks, old loves, and irresistible strangers, going any place... Where The Boys Are "Someday, when they look back and write about these times, I will be able to say that I was...more
Paperback, 426 pages
Published
May 1st 2004
by Kensington
(first published 2003)
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Jun 20, 2011
K.Z. Snow
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Nothing's any better, I'm afraid. The dialogue is more turgid than the characters' winkies ever get, and it's still loaded with mentions of the speakers' names. (Didn't this book have an editor?) On one page alone, where there was a conversation between two men, the speakers addressed each other by name 11 times. That's 11 times in 15 pieces of dialogue! I can't take much more.
In addition, and in spite of all the crying the guys do, this 400+-page tome has too little conflict to justify...more
DNF
Nothing's any better, I'm afraid. The dialogue is more turgid than the characters' winkies ever get, and it's still loaded with mentions of the speakers' names. (Didn't this book have an editor?) On one page alone, where there was a conversation between two men, the speakers addressed each other by name 11 times. That's 11 times in 15 pieces of dialogue! I can't take much more.
In addition, and in spite of all the crying the guys do, this 400+-page tome has too little conflict to justify...more
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Jul 06, 2012
Lori
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4 of 5 stars
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4 1/2 stars Excellent read.
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There's something very intriguing to me about the process of choosing a book. I look at a shelf, stocked to the brim with a collection of novels. All of these novels are categorized and separated by what they are "about". I found this book under one simple category title...fiction: literature. At first I remember thinking, "That's how you can describe this book? Nothing else. Nothing." And now, as I finish this book after 48 short hours, I understand why. This book is undefinable. It has...that...more
I really like what this book is about-- the family that we chose for ourselves and how (like biological family) its struggles are intencse--and the impact of grief, how people deal or don't deal with it, individually and collectively. I also liked reading about both sides of the whole circuit party thing, the fact that nobody talks about AIDS anymore and the internalzied and external (of course) effects of homophobia. I like that this is all percolated into what is essentially a romance novel an...more
I was disappointed with this sequel to “The Men from the Boys”. The different story-telling voices didn’t work for me. I became confused as to which person’s point of view we were in. The overwhelming over-use of names in the dialogue distracted me all the way through the book, even though this could’ve been one way the author chose to show whose section we were in. I was constantly pulled out of the story, as I was thinking we were getting one character’s thoughts/conversation, when it suddenly...more
This was a novel that followed three friends for one year while they deal with AIDS, love, money and friendship. The whole book was a bit soapy but never got too whiny. It was a long, large book that I did enjoy.
Even though I started off not really liking some of these chracters, Mann makes it hard to put the book down. There were many moments when I truly did connect with many of these folks...
I Really liked the way the characters evolve and grow, even though there were a few plot devices that didn't seem to make a whole lot of sense... Was Jeff really just sitting around not working for four years...? (Or at least when he wasn't jumping from one circuit party to another...)
Eva began as more of a cari...more
I Really liked the way the characters evolve and grow, even though there were a few plot devices that didn't seem to make a whole lot of sense... Was Jeff really just sitting around not working for four years...? (Or at least when he wasn't jumping from one circuit party to another...)
Eva began as more of a cari...more
It is often an easy matter to say "I liked this book" or "I didn't like this book", but sometimes the simplest descriptions don't always apply. For instance, we may not LIKE the road we're forced to travel in life, but we may LIKE where the hardships lead us. In "Where the Boys Are", many of the characters are undeniably hard to like and sometimes too "holier than thou" to be tolerated ... but, that's okay ... since they end up leading us somewhere we needed to go. That destination is a realizat...more
I liked this book the best of the three in the Jeff/Lloyd trilogy. So emotional!
A wonderful sequel.
Good gay romp.
Awesome!
I actually picked up this sequel to Mann's The Men From The Boys before I realized there was a previous book; half-way through the novel, I just HAD to read the first book since I kept hearing so much about the infamous Javitz! Excellent, excellent summer reading for the beach; light reading but excellent character development - you can't help but fall in love with these characters!
After reading this and "The Men From the Boys", I ordered more of Mann's books.
great novel examining the lives of Boston circuit boys, thier lives and relationships. Huge step above most gay novels I've read before.
May 01, 2012
Wwd
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I liked it..... even though I didn't read the first book.
May 19, 2013
Jessie
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Jimmy
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Apr 19, 2013
Shannon
marked it as maybe
Mar 21, 2013
Aris
marked it as to-read
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